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Energetic Dance at Schwartz Center |
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Leslie Morris
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
"How to Walk, Run, Jump, Fall Together" is an energetic and entertaining evening of all-original dance. The concert features the work of two faculty and five student choreographers, including three seniors.
"This is a celebration of our senior students and also an opportunity to create dances that can be playful, serious, and above all, an experience in having fun together," said Concert Director Jumay Chu. "The concert reflects a wide array of the work being done in the department, experimenting with conventions and bringing issues and ideas that are non-traditional to the forefront. It's interesting to see how the dancers' disparate backgrounds inform their individual choreography."
Pieces in the concert include a solo that questions the image of women in today's society, a muppet puppet dance which creates a surprising complexity of meaning, and improvisational work that relates the body in unexpected ways to the performance space and to the other moving bodies.
Before the May 1 concert at 7:30 pm there will be a demonstration of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian cultural/martial arts form, by members of the capoeira class in the Schwartz Center lobby.
"How to Walk, Run, Jump, FallŠTogether" will be performed May 1-3 at 8 pm in the Class of '56 Dance Theatre.
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